Joseph Joubert Quotes

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Metaphysics is a science.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.